Welcome Back, Sinus Infection!

So apparently I can’t go two months in a row without getting a sinus infection. Ugh. Jack started getting sick this past Saturday with a head cold and I was doing a pretty good job of fighting it off without coming down with any symptoms other than fatigue, but it totally knocked me down on Monday and it’s begun morphing itself into your standard sinus infection. As I wrote in my last post about sinus infections, the last doctor I saw felt that what I’m suffering from probably isn’t actually even a sinus infection. I guess it’s just how my body reacts to getting a head cold??? I don’t know. But even I know that going on antibiotics AGAIN, not even two months after I finished a course, would be a mistake. So I’m just going to wait and see what happens. Seriously, I don’t even know how I got sick. I’ve been soooooo careful! I’ve been taking all of my vitamins, I’ve been taking two probiotics, I’ve been doing my sinus rinses twice a day EVERY DAY. And yet I still get the same horrible sinus symptoms. With this particular cold, I’ve also gotten flu-like body aches and crazy fatigue. The worst thing is the post-nasal drip that causes an incessant cough that keeps you from falling asleep at night, so to prevent that from happening I’ve increased the sinus rinses to at least half a dozen times a day. Literally every few hours. That way I’m rinsing out the gunk that would’ve ended up collecting in the back of my throat. Well aparently yesterday I overdid it with the sinus rinses. I think I actually inflamed my sinuses so they were swollen shut. I’m not kidding when I say that my face KILLED. It felt like I had inflated it like a balloon to the point where the pressure on my ears was so painful that I couldn’t fall to sleep. I was in absolute misery. In order to fall asleep I took 4 Motrin to get the pain to subside. Thankfully, that did the trick. Today the internal swelling has lessened so I’m not in any pain, but my ears still hurt. But the sinus rinses are now washing out endless green gunk, like you would expect if you had a sinus infection. I know that doctors have discovered that green mucus doesn’t necessarily signal an infection, but that’s a hard concept for me to adjust to. I mean, how could it not?! Green is not normal! So at this point I really need to see a specialist. With all of the preventative measures that I’m taking, I shouldn’t still be getting sick this often. People, I know–I’m always sick! You can call me a hypochondriac if you’d like, but you can’t fake green mucus! I know you’re sick of constantly hearing me talk about being sick, but how do you think I feel? I’m the one who’s always sick! There’s plenty of other things I could do to get attention–I could start dressing in really skanky clothes, I could start swearing like a trucker, I could start getting fall-down drunk at social events. All of those things would be more fun–and would garner more attention–than getting chronic sinus infections. Anyway, at least Jack doesn’t seem to be getting worse. His symptoms have kinda plateaued so hopefully he’ll start feeling better soon. He’s at that stage where he sneezes and inadvertedly blows snot bubbles. So much fun. I can’t put a tissue in his face and ask him to blow his nose–that’s waaaaay beyond his comprehension. So I have to wait until I hear him sneeze and then attack him with a tissue before he has the chance to wipe his face on anything. His Nosefrida nose suctioner has been working overtime. Greatest (and grossest) invention ever! Thankfully, the weather was really nice today so Jack and I went outside to play. When I say ‘play’ I mean that Jack wandered around our property and kept trying to go into other people’s yards while I followed him around with a black plastic cauldron (seriously) picking up broken beer bottles and little plastic McDonald’s toys left behind by the previous owners. Today’s treasures included a capless plastic bottle that once contained bubble solution, a plastic star, a rusted metal tiki torch light, the lid portion of a can of Bud Light, a broken Corona bottle, a plastic watch, a golf ball, a table tennis ball, and a horseshoe. Jealous? Then we went next door to play with Violet, who happens to be in Jack’s preschool class. Jack’s preschool class has about six kids and one of them just so happens to be our next door neighbor? What are the odds?! So we were outside for a while today, which was nice. Then Jack watched Curious George, which is just the cutest show. It used to annoy me, but once I saw a few episodes I realized that it was basically a show about Jack. Jack IS Curious George. The only difference is that George fixes the problem or cleans up everything by the end of the episode. Jack skips that part. I think George and Jack even speak the same jibberish language. The intro to the show features a song sung by a guy that sounds a lot like Harry Connick, Jr. So basically a guy with a Southern, New Orleans-type accent. He repeatedly sings the words "like Curious, Curious George" and it TOTALLY sounds like he’s saying "Bi-Curious, Curious George." It absolutely cracks me up because YOU KNOW there’s got to be a porno movie out there called Bi-Curious George. That reminds me of last week’s episode of 30 Rock where Jack comes up with the idea of a Porn for Women TV channel, which features an attractive man who says "How was your day? Do you need to talk? Cause I’ll just listen patiently and say things like ‘Uh huh’, ‘How annoying’, ‘She’s clearly jealous of you’ and ‘Well it’s his loss.’" Absolutely priceless. Actually, it’s not priceless. According to the attractive man, it’s $24.95 an hour. Today I read an unbelievable story on FoxNews.com that I just have to share with everyone. Did you hear that Octomom was about to lose her house? Well, not anymore! PETA stepped in and agreed to pay the money she owes, as well as her monthly rent, if she will allow them to put this sign in her front yard:

Can you imagine???!!! I just had to share that with you. This is the type of "news" you find when you get your news from Fox! Well I still have to finish my previous post so I can share what happened when we went out to dinner with Melissa and Gerard, but I’m sooooo out of it at the moment. I just want to lie down. Have a great night and make sure you watch 30 Rock!